We are seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer (Top-Secret Clearance required) to join a data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) development team supporting our federal client working to migrate an on-prem Oracle Enterprise Edition (EE) data warehouse to Redshift instance in AWS. This is a full-time position with on-site work performed at the client’s office located in Washington, D.C. Responsibilities: Automate infrastructure provisioning.
Follow DevOps best practices to define deployment architecture.
Provide architectural and design input for network provisioning, connectivity, and security.
Manage, update, and monitor cloud-based infrastructure, security, and application environments.
Conduct Automated Cloud Security Assessment (ACSA) scans and remediate the findings for AWS services Conduct, prioritize and remediate Tennable Nessus findings for RHEL servers Review CHEF cookbooks and apply CHEF recipes to remediate Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). For time critical CVE’s write custom CHEF recipes to remediate sooner Configure Splunk for centralized logging using IaC
Configure AWS security groups
Updates OS level patches
Use DevSecOps methodology to in every step of the SDLC
Configure SSO authentication on COTS application and development tools
Create SSL certificate to secure application endpoints. Requirements:​​ Active Top-Secret clearance required
3-5 years of DevOps experience
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (i.e., Gitlab runner, Github Action etc.)
Previous hands-on AWS experience Best practice knowledge with setting up automated pipeline triggers
Proficiency with GitOps
Experience with Linux​ administration
Experience with coding languages such as python
Familiarity with security tools such as ACAS scanners and remediation
Familiarity with Splunk​
Basic understanding on networking and routing​
Proficiency in automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible and CHEF Knowledge of scripting languages (YAML, Python, Bash) for automation and troubleshooting